A History of the University of Cambridge
A History of the University of Cambridge
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USDThe University of Cambridge has been a federation of colleges for centuries; in the past hundred years it has also become a center of international fame in many disciplines, with numerous faculties and departments. Volume IV of A History of the University of Cambridge covers the years 1870-1990, and explores the fascinating labyrinth of the federation and the nature of this extraordinary academic growth; it also sketches the society of the University and its place in the world; the role of religion and learning; the entry of women; and the leading characters in the story--Henry Sidgwick, F. W. Maitland, Gowland Hopkins, Ernest Rutherford, and many others.
- The fourth (and last-numbered) volume in an important series which takes the story of Cambridge University from Victorian times to the present day, describing in detail people and events which are in living memory
- Covers 'controversial' subjects such as the admission of women, funding, the attitudes of successive governments towards university education, etc., and the modern role of Cambridge in the world today
- Christopher Brooke, a medievalist of world renown, now tackles a period in modern history, following his recently-published David Knowles Remembered and his history of Gonville and Caius College (1988)
Reviews & endorsements
"Who better to be our guide to modern Cambridge than the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History?....Brooke loves Cambridge and the number of topics he finds space to discuss is astonishing. He makes one wish the one volume had been two." Noel Annan, London Review of Books
"His tale is well-balanced and measured, treating personalities, disciplines of stucy, colleges, and institutional developments of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with equal seriousness. The book ultimately succeeds in weaving a coherent whole, leaving the reader with a sense of place and continuity, bearing witness to one institution's seemingly successful adaptation to historical change." Canadian Journal of History
"All in all, Christopher Brooke has done a commendable job....Brooke manages to maintain the reader's interest and avoid the temptation to let his history degenerate into mere lists." D.E. Moggridge, Albion
Product details
January 1993Hardback
9780521343503
678 pages
236 × 165 × 43 mm
1.068kg
22 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Prologue
- 2. The university and the colleges
- 3. The second Royal Commission and university reform, 1872–1914
- 4. Religion, 1870–1914
- 5. Theology
- 6. The natural sciences
- 7. Classics, law and history
- 8. The society
- 9. Women, 1868–1948
- 10. The Great War, 1914–19
- 11. Sir Hugh Anderson, the Asquith Commission and its sequel
- 12. The University Library
- 13. The dons' religion in twentieth-century Cambridge
- 14. Religion and learning: C. H. Dodd and David Knowles
- 15. A diversity of disciplines
- 16. The Second World War
- 17. The university and the world, 1945–90: a cosmopolitan society
- 18. The new colleges
- 19. Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Fellows and undergraduates of the men's colleges, 1869–1919
- Appendix 2. Student numbers by college, 1990–1
- Appendix 3. College incomes, c.1926
- Appendix 4. A note on schools
- Appendix 5. Profession and status of Cambridge students
- Bibliographical references
- Index.
